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Had Lebron James 2.0 arrived in this seasons draft, would he earn a measly 5K/week with all of his skills, at most, at "strong"? Some players are ready to play in the big league immediately, but Buzzerbeater's system, unfortunately, supports a rather stale, monotonous system of introducing draftees. A great draft pick is usually classified with high potential and skills of "respectable" or greater. Typically in higher leagues, the first few years of this pick's career are spent lulling in meaningless scrimmages until their abilities are capable of producing even the slightest benefits to a full roster.

To me, this seems unreasonable. Some youngsters should be capable of competing at the highest level regardless. I believe more diversity needs to be added to the Buzzerbeater draft. These once-in-a-generation talents should be extremely, extremely rare, but should have salaries ranging from 10k-30k.

Opinions?

You want an 18 year old to be 30k? That is a bit ridiculous. This is a lot like the free throw shooting discussion that has been going on. It may not be directly like the NBA but it doesn't need to be. I would hate to have such overpowering 18 year olds. Can you imagine a 30k starting PF with HOF potential? That would make U21 NT match ups be unfair. I like it the way it is right now. The one thing that has also already been discussed that I would be okay with is to have 19 year olds have the capability of having strong skills and 20 year olds being added to the draft who can have skills that go up to proficient. This makes some of the draftees more ready for current play right from the get go it doesn't overpower any one player.

I like your suggestion here.

Yeh I agree only change would be to give 19 years better skills upto strong. Still a 18 year old would be better long term but means 19 year olds are not so far behind they can never catch up.

I think, in the future, colleges should be added, and better draftees come from more prestigious ones. That's hard to implement though, so let's stick to the basics. I agree with your idea, that once in a generation, there should be an amazing draftee, but I don't think it should be based upon salary. This generational draftee should have much higher skills than the rest of his class. For example, he should have skills in the 8's and 9's, while regular draftees should have skills in the 6's and 7's. However, he shouldn't have much potential compared to weaker draftees.

Also, completely off topic, but how in the world can a dunk contest be implemented into BB?

I like his idea, He did say rare, and not everybody. I don't expect the BB god to understand ,about being league ready.

If they don't even want upgrade the trainer with the cost of them. I'm not going lie to myself with league ready players are rare players. Because you see the players are league ready. yes., 5 league. lol

You also need to consider the fact that lots of teams in lower leagues wouldn't be able to afford a 30k player, forcing them to sell this player for loads and loads of cash. If a team in a D.V league gets 5 million for just accidently drafting a 5/5 prospect, with a very high salary, this would make that certain division and team very unfair. You have the ability to train a "lebron" without an outrageously high skill set/salary... So yeah.. I disagree